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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German : probably from the personal name Peske or Peschke, vernacular forms of Petrus (see Peter).
  • Danish : from the old word bieske ‘bitter’, ‘acrid’, a nickname common since the 17th century.

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